![]() ![]() These factors contribute to the loss of the presentiment of astrology as described by Geoffrey Cornelius. In our time there is a tendency to prioritise the material world, manipulated by science and technology, accompanied by the loss of soul or spirit. The recovery of these ideas in the Renaissance by Marsilio Ficino was central to his spiritual work and astrological practice, which was a daily preoccupation for him. ![]() The qualities of nous can be cultivated via reverence and initiation and enable man to see the world symbolically and so divine the course of best action, in line with God’s will. On the one hand we are able, through reason, to negotiate our way through the material world on the other, through nous, we have qualities of imagination and intuition and so are able to appreciate love and beauty as intrinsic to the spiritual life of the cosmos. The human has a special place in it due to the soul’s mediating role and our paradoxical nature. Abstract According to the hermetic sources the cosmos is a living sacred being mixed out of body, soul and spirit.
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